AUTOMOBILI ELETTRICHE
ITALIA · BROOKLYN
The original 500,
quietly electrified.
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02Falling in loveis the easy part.
The dream.
The dream of vintage Fiat ownership is seductive. Roof open, bopping through town. Small enough to park anywhere. Onlookers smile like they just saw a puppy with its head out a car window. Ordinary errands become little adventures. Problem is, the dream is only half the story.
The reality.
Anyone who's actually lived with a vintage Fiat will tell you the other half. Sixty-year-old cars come with sixty-year-old compromises. Squishy brakes, vague steering, floaty suspension, and an engine that, on its best day, struggles to keep up with modern traffic. It's downtime, missed appointments, and the mechanic you're on a first-name basis with.
03Everything you love.Better where it matters.
The way it drives.
Brakes, steering, suspension, even the seat foam. We revisited the parts that shape every mile. The changes are discreet. The difference is something you feel.
The way it feels.
Fine Italian leather replaces the vinyl. The original speedometer stays. The fuel gauge has a new job, and the original radio now pairs with your phone. Familiar at first glance. More considered with every mile.
04Electric, with restraint
Some engines make a car great.This one got in the way.
We love a great gas engine. A V12 is most of why we fell in love with cars. But the 500's air-cooled twin was hardly a symphonic masterpiece. It struggled to keep up with traffic in 1968. Modern life hasn't got any slower.
We went electric to make the car as fun to drive as it is to look at.
Everything else, we touched as lightly as possible. The engine was the one part standing between the 500 and the car it should have been all along.
05No two are the same.
Every Rivivente is built to order.
We'll ask what you drive now, where you'd take it, and what you'd want to be sitting in. We find the car, strip it to bare metal, and build it around your answers.
Paint, leather, canvas, stitching, hardware. Each detail considered, from the seat foam to the way the door shuts.
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